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At the same time, the abbot of Doncaster sued up the payment of certain moneys, which the earl, whose revenue ran a losing race with his hospitality, had borrowed at sundry times of the said abbot: for the abbots and the bishops were the chief usurers of those days, and, as the end sanctifies the means, were not in the least scrupulous of employing what would have been extortion in the profane, to accomplish the pious purpose of bringing a blessing on the land by rescuing it from the frail hold of carnal and temporal into the firmer grasp of ghostly and spiritual possessors.
Why, the rescuing of the wrecked balloonists alone paid us for coming," said Will. They found plenty of water, and anchored in the mouth of the famous Suwanee River, with the busy city something like twelve miles away. Once more they went ashore, and on the bank of the stream of which they had so many times sung they built their last campfire and put up their tent.
Instantly, cried Margarita. 'Not you, said Guy. 'Yes! 'No! said Guy. 'Gallant Goshawk! best of birds, let me go! 'Without me or Farina, never! I see I shall have no chance with my lord now. Come, then, come, fair Irresistible! come, lads. Farina can journey back alone. You shall have the renown of rescuing Dame Lisbeth. 'Farina! forget not to comfort my father, said Margarita.
After thus ridding himself of his enemies, he went outside the house and called to the girl, who came running to his side, and joyfully travelled on with him to Mikawa, where her father dwelt; and when they reached Mikawa, he took the maiden to the old man's house, and told him how, when he had fallen among thieves, his daughter had come to him in his hour of peril, and saved him out of her great pity; and how he, in return, rescuing her from her servitude, had brought her back to her home.
That a pair of auto thieves should have brought him to this rural Paradise seemed odd enough. As he gazed about and looked up at the quiet star-studded sky his fears were all but dispelled. For were not the friendly woods and water near him? They seemed like rescuing allies now.
And when he witnessed the noble conduct of the latter, first in rescuing his daughter from the flood, and now so generously interposing in his behalf, it produced that struggle between pride and conscience, whose operation is so forcibly expressed by the sacred writer just quoted.
Fullam, was despatched in the dingey to the Kearsarge with a request that assistance might immediately be given in rescuing the lives of the wounded men. It was promised, but the fulfilment of the promise, owing, as we trust it may be proved, to circumstances incidental to the fight, was, as we have said, tardy.
Meantime, notwithstanding awkward occurrences, and griefs that she brought upon her parents, the little princess laughed and grew not fat, but plump and tall. She reached the age of seventeen, without having fallen into any worse scrape than a chimney; by rescuing her from which, a little bird-nesting urchin got fame and a black face.
Say, next time you go bearding damsels in distress and rescuing castaway fishermen, you learn how to tell the difference between a bulldog who's whining to get out and get at you, and a wounded hero. It's a good thing you didn't have a chance to follow up that 'groan' you'd have groan wiser." "One more like that, Tod," suggested Mr. Fulton wearily, "and I think I'll take a hand myself."
"Will you tell me the precise way in which good girls stir their stumps?" asked Jessie; "for I'm not quite sure." Dan answered with a laugh, and went out to saddle his horse, followed by his brother and Duncan McKay. "Rescuing seems to be the order of the day this year," remarked Peter, as they walked towards the stable behind the cottage.
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